5 May 1965: 15 of the top 40 singles were by British acts (Herman's Hermits with 2 songs, The Beatles, Petula Clark, Tom Jones, Freddie and the Dreamers with 3 songs, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Peter and Gordon, The Moody Blues, The Dave Clark Five, Gerry and the Pacemakers, and Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders

"You corrupt
And bring corruption to all that you touch
Hold
You'll behold
And beholden for all that you've done
Spell
Cast a spell
Cast a spell on the country you run
And risk
You will risk
You will risk all their lives and their souls...
Oh, our freedom's consuming itself
What we've become
Is contrary to what we want
Take a bow...
Hex
Feed the hex
Feed the hex on the country you love"

Germany Replaces United States As Country With Best International Image - The Trump Effect

Drones just spent its 100th week in the Top 200 albums chart in the Belgium-Wallonia market after re-entering at #184 earlier this month. France and Belgium hold the album chart longevity records for all ten Muse studio and live albums released since Showbiz.

Four years ago Live at Rome Olympic Stadium became the first Muse album to be designated with the following sound recording copyright symbol:

The Dutch NPO Radio 2 Top 2000 list for 2017 has been announced today. It is an annual list which lets voters rank their 5-35 best tracks of all time. Uprising and Knights of Cydonia were chosen as the two most popular Muse songs.

PiB has been played live a total of 957 times from January 2000 (Paradiso, Amsterdam) through December 2017 (Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne).

The beginning of the riff shows similarities to the toccata from Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565.

The band were apparently on hallucinogenic mushrooms when they recorded it. The 1997 studio demo of PiB lacked the main riff of the song although there were numerous similarities in the lyrics and structure of the song. PiB reportedly was to be re-recorded under the wishes of Maverick to coincide with a US tour promoting Origin of Symmetry. As Maverick wished Matt to tone down the falsetto on the song, Muse left the label and the album was not released in the US as planned in 2002.

FAWY has never been played live except twice as an instrumental intro to Eternally Missed at shows in Reading and Leeds in 2002 opening for Foo Fighters. The riff was also played as an intro to Starlight at the Săo Paulo, Brazil gig in 2008. The song was originally titled World Crumbling.

U2, Guns N' Roses, and Coldplay had the Top 3 Tours during calendar year 2017.

Ed Sheeran, Depeche Mode, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Roger Waters, Adele, Sting, Elton John, Robbie Williams and Queen are among the other UK artists who grossed more than $50 million playing live during the past year.

Muse have now sold over 260,000 tickets at over 40 shows held in Australia from 2000-2017. In addition, the band have played 16 gigs at the Big Day Out music festival in five cities in 2004, 2007, and 2010.

Notable artists who have sold the most tickets in Australia in recent years are:

Winner of Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance: 'Helter Skelter' by Paul McCartney
Winner of Best Rock Album: The Resistance by Muse

16 January 2018 Los Angeles CA

Muse members Matt Bellamy and Dom Howard were joined onstage by Sir Paul McCartney performing the Beatles classic, 'Helter Skelter,' during a Tuesday night performance under the moniker Dr. Pepper's Jaded Hearts Club Band. Howard told Loudwire Nights host Toni Gonzalez, "It was completely spontaneous and none of us had any idea it was going to happen, so it wasn't rehearsed. We were playing at Stella McCartney's fashion show and we heard rumors he and Ringo were gonna be there. And literally we went onstage and he just showed up onstage during the first song. I was just playing along head down until I looked up and was like, 'Who's this bloke onstage?' and I realized it was Paul McCartney. I was like, 'Oh my god, this is nuts.' And he just kind of started singing." The drummer says, "It was a real once in a lifetime experience, that was. It was hugely epic." Source: loudwire.com

Footage of performance of 'I Saw Her Standing There' and 'Helter Skelter' below:

Deutschland [Germany] and 中国 [China] eclipsed the United States in global approval of their leadership around the world in 2017, per the Gallup World Poll. According to the survey, Germany is now the world's top-rated global power with a 41% approval rating after the U.S. plunged from 48% in 2016 to 30% in 2017. Rossiya [Russia] has a 27% approval rating.